Posted on 04/26/2005 1:23:16 PM PDT by wallcrawlr
The president of the University of St. Thomas on Monday condemned a speech at the Catholic school last week by conservative author Ann Coulter, saying "such hateful speech vulgarizes our culture and goes against everything the University of St. Thomas stands for."
The Rev. Dennis Dease wrote in Bulletin Today, a university newsletter, that "although her presentation may have been meant as an 'act' or a 'shtick' to entertain by provoking those who disagree, such behavior unfortunately contributes to the growing dark side of our culture -- a disrespect for persons and their sincerely held beliefs."
Coulter spoke at the university on April 18. She was a guest of the school's chapter of the College Republicans and a student newspaper, the Standard, but neither organization paid her speaking fee. That was covered by the Young America's Foundation, a Herndon, Va., organization that bills itself as an outreach program for conservative youth.
A St. Thomas student who heard Coulter said he understood how her comments could have hurt others.
Coulter spoke at St. Olaf College the day before she visited St. Thomas. The president of St. Olaf, Christopher Thomforde, said students told him that her comments were inflammatory for little reason.
"You'd want a kind of intersection between faithfulness and respect and commitment along with intelligent critique and analysis," he said Monday night. "The issues are highly complicated, and to just sort of incite people is not helpful."
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Yes. That was a picture of Ann taken back in 1979.
No, Rev. Dease. She means every word of it, and she is right.
Yep. Double-Standard proof, when you type into google Hitlery, you see nuthin' but good pics. Expected coming from the lunatic left Google.
I went to bvml.org (source of Ann picture). Why is there a pic of Ann on their servers? I don't even understand what the site is about.
Ann as a teenager. My heart, be still!
FReepmail me for an answer. Otherwise, not.
hehehe....
And Moveon.org is love speak.... (Arrgh!)
Or maybe she said that she is glad that Benedict XVI will continue the policies of John Paul II.
It doesn't even give a vague reference to anything she said.
you might say that. ( I wouldn't)
Truth=hateful
I'm sorry, what?
What is "hate speech"? The last time I checked this is America. If I want too say that "islam sucks the sweat off a dead pigs butt", that's my opinion. If I want too say "The Left is totally lost it." , that's my opinion. If I want too say "Muslims around the world are slaughtering people in the name of Allah." that's not only my opinion, but it's a fact. Seems too me "hate speech" is when the Left, or the Muslims disagree with you. Talk about the "weenyfication" (not the original word I was thinking about) of America............
Jeff
So what are his views on Ward Churchhill's speeches? I bet he enjoys those viewpoints.
LOL.
Are you still working the homosexuality / cannibalism angle. Too funny. That was your assignment last week. This week, your assignment was to cover consensual head shrinking.
There is a reason why no one has gotten into that argument with you. And I think you know, deep in your heart, what that reason is. If not, let me know, and I'll freepmail you my thoughts on the topic.
That's what I figured......
But apparently I'm not supposed to say that Minnesota is a blue state and GOSH! there might be LIBERALS there!
C'mon Bahbah, you know damn well that her act is in fact a schtick. Just like Rush's is. There's nothing wrong with that, though.
She could very easily state all of her opinions without the schtick, but no one would pay attention.
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